i still remember when they introduced the skinning feature.. oh AtomAMP, how i once loved thee

If the face is all LCD/OLED I wonder if you could buy/download a crapload of skins for it? now that would be cool.

The webpage mentions a question of whether or not it would be a touch screen or have physical buttons so they would click. I have a "kills two birds with one stone solution" - a haptic touch screen. I've tried these out in our electronics labs and they're really cool. when compressed the screen offers a variety of feedbacks such as a click(s), or a vibration. Personally I can't believe these haven't made it into the consumer market yet.

It would be difficult to implement the eq and playlist, are we supposed to pull those out our ass or something, you can't really materialize things out of thin air.

And please make it so it shrinks to a compact version when you double tap on the title bar.

I do remember MacAmp (ported over to WinAmp). :p Make it the size of a Nano and I'd buy one for old-timey sake.

Just beautiful! Make the whole front a customizable touch-screen LCD if yer askin' me. Skinning would be as easy as skinning Winamp! Give it faster than 15fps video playback and a built-in FM modulator and I'm completely on board.

Okay, that totally kicks! I would totally buy one... just for nostalgia value. Neat idea.

wohho makes a good point if it were all screen it could be skinable just like winamp is. Also, as for a product that uses a haptic touch surface probably the TactaPad is the only example of such a device (check out the demo movies, quite impressive), and it doesn't even have the screen functionality. This makes me wonder that if the rumored "true Video iPod" is an all screen iPod with virtual buttons, Apple will enable it to be skinable. Doesn't seem like a very Apple thing to do, but it would be cool nonetheless. Although I guess people have already figured out how to hack the iPod UI in some capacity.

old sk00l - i love it... Thanks, Giz.

where is the key lock?

This would be really nice - especially if the back of the device was the playlist (switchable to EQ). If the price was reasonable and the features up to par there's a good chance I'd buy one.

I'd settle for just a player with a song progress-bar touchable anywhere with a finger to skip the song instantly to that position. I'd kill to have that on my DVD remote ... One minor squibble about the article: Winamp wasn't the first mp3 player. There was Amp before it (commandline, with WINamp being the frontend for it), and also l3dec (the reference decoder), and Winplay3, a commercial windows winamp-before-winamp app for mp3 playback - and this was the really first one. But yes, winamp was (is?) the most popular one.

wohho, Alpine has made a car stereo / dvd player with haptic interface for a couple years now - they call it PulseTouch. Also, this winamp player is a neat idea. Having a motor move the progress bar along as the song played would prolly eat up batteries though - I guess making it all OLED would be the way to go.

That really whips the llamas ass.

this classic winamp skin is still the best .. i dont use anything else

You guys are crazy. It can't have an LCD screen except for the display areas. Physical buttons all the way, baby.

http://interactive.usc.edu/archives/004670.html This is more like the product I tested. I work in automotive electronics so we're talking UI for the information center of the car. Unlike the TactaPad, this is a screen with a tactile feedback overlay. I can't remember specifically how it works, but the feedback is definitely direct and even a bit surprising.

Old school? nostalgic feeling?? I STILL use old winamp. You just can't beat it.

I love it (as long as it's OLED skinnable) but I'm going to bet the farm that it will never ever happen in a million years. Have you all forgotten that AOL (?) bought WinAmp for $400 million and has recouped exactly zero dollars of that back? You think they'd license it for an amount people would be willing to pay? And you wonder why no one uses WinAmp anymore. Great idea though.

You know it would be hot if they just simplified the interface to make it quicker to thumb through. How about some kind of... oh I don't know... lever, slide... SCROLLWHEEL! How about we simplify the color scheme so it's easier on the eyes, and easier to locate interface items. Hmm. Something neutral. How about white? Yes! White, or the choice of black. OH, wait; it's been done? Well, I guess we're screwed. ... It was fugly then, it's fugly now.

jeez you guys make winamp seem like Amiga, or something thats dead...heck i still use winamp to this very day, i'm using it right now :P i still run that theme too, i use winamp 2.91 because its the most modern of the older, non-bloat versions of winamp, which work just as well as itunes or VLC with the correct codecs and plugins installed and i've always wondered why no one had made a winamp MP3 player yet...

what about one that looks like WinAmp 3.0... oh.

Yeah, I'm with James. iTunes is waaaay too fat and nasty. WinAMP is still my preference. I'd love to have that player, especially if it had a 100gb drive (so all my tunes would fit!)

Like James said, are we the only people still using Winamp? I have the modern skin and all but it plays music better than most hands down. Whats up with all you haters?

If it were physical with little embedded screens for the displays, I would pick one up right now!

It's just so dorky s'all I'm sayin'. Like, Atari is cool retro, but WinAmp is poorly-designed-engineer-bad-aesthetic. Just sayin'.

I haven't used anything but iTunes for so long, i thought WinAmp still looked like that. Do they still have all the llamas?

iomatic = apl fanboi W1n4mp = roXors

heck, i still use winamp sometimes, but for my own nostalgia i have it skinned with 'classic marantz' and it's beautiful. now THAT would be a cool mp3 player

Another regular winamp user here (5.0). Drag and drop baby... drag and drop.

As to whether this should be a touch screen or have physical buttons, I would prefer the physical button approach. This thing doesn't need skinning capabilities. Just a simple retro rendition of the original Winamp skin. Of course, the parts of the skin that actually need to change should be OLED. I would buy one of these in a heartbeat.